Sloane n' Bubbles!

Sloane n' Friends

Happy Birthday, Baby!

sloane enjoyed her first birthday . . . and her first cupcake!

Preparing to Turn One

Sloane just LOVED her birthday card from Auntie Katie (and Tyler and Piper!) -- she played with it for so long! World's funniest birthday card? Did she just get the joke? (I think Sloane is pretending she could read because really the card was just sweet, not that funny. good try though!) Sloane also studied up on her anatomy by reading about her belly button and other seemingly hidden parts.
(Thanks so much for my presents!!!)

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Sloane took a liking to mama's credit card. uh oh!!

Summer Fun

Sloane's daddy got her a pool for chillin' on the weekends at her casa. She had a great time splashin' around.


swim diapers!

Cheerio, Love!

2008 Rose Bowl Party

Sloane, with her mommy and daddy in tow, went to the Rose Bowl on Saturday. Quinn Emanuel had its annual Rose Bowl Party, and this year was a "hoe down" theme. By all accounts, it was over 100 degrees at 5 pm. It was brutally hot. It got a lot better by 7pm, but the whole family was pretty wiped out by that point. The heat obviously accounts for the fact that Sloane's mommy didn't even THINK of taking any photos (and if you've met her, you'll realize this is the first time this has EVER happened in history).

If we had taken photos, you would see pics of cowboys (with fire arms) and your assorted "rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists." There was a gun show. Real guns with blanks. So very strange. I say, if you are going to put on a gun show for the kids, don't take all the "fun" out of it by repeatedly saying that guns aren't toys and guns aren't for kids. Just embrace it at that point, right?

The party also had caricature artists. Sloane's "caricature" was more of a sketch, which turned out quite nicely. Aaron, Quinn's barista, is also an artist . . . and this was his first time doing caricatures at a party. It was very cute how hard he was trying. The caricature artist to his right whipped through 5 people in the time it took him to do this one. Who wants Sloane on a surf board anyway? I'd rather have this, the one tangible memento from our trip to the sun.

The Stand II

Look Ma! No Hands!

Sloane's newest trick is standing without holding on to anything. The best part is that she raises her hands in the air signalling victory when she does so. Seriously, she is too cute for words.

NYC Reunion

Shane, Kristin, Liz and Kristen, CLS Class of 2003 5th Year Reunion

Claire, Kristen, Kristin and Sean at Claire and Steve's Pre-reunion festivities

Tim, Jackie, Shane, Dan, Erin, Sloane and BK (or Brian, to you commoners) at Telepan restaurant. So yummy. And, thank goodness Sloane was SUCH a good girl!

Andrew, Caitlin (carrying TBD Tilton), Kristin, Sloane, Erin, Liz and Sarah in Brooklyn (BK to those "in the know")

Makin' Friends in the NYC

Sloane having a blast with Clara Z

Sloane and Auntie Erin

Sloane hangin' with Patrick and Oliver

Sloane and some random chick at the park (she made friends with this 26 month old baby named Ava on Friday afternoon -- she hangs with the cooler, older set, apparently)

Sloane meeting the newest member of her mommy's gang, Sarah Nadzo

Sloane, getting a big kiss from Rufus Holland (of the Brooklyn Hollands)

Sloane, chit-chatting with Auntie Kristin ("oh, go ON!")